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Trump boasts new trade deal between U.S., Canada and Mexico is 'historic transaction' as last-minute deal replaces NAFTA after a YEAR of negotiations and war of words between Trump and Justin Trudeau https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6225237/Canada-US-make-progress-trade-talks-no-deal-yet.html   Trade deal between USA mexico and Canada. Trump congratulates them for making a good deal. Trump posted a twitter post saying that they deal will be called 'The United States Mexico Canada agreement'. He claims it will fix many mistakes made in the NAFTA and says it will bring 3 great nations together in competition with the rest of the world.  The type of news value this is hard news as it includes politics and current affairs. Furthermore, since trump is a famous person you could day it is also includes Elite people and nations. This will be appealing tot he audience as Trump is insinuating that the rest of the countries are below Canada Mexico and USA...

Lindsay Lohan was punched after trying to ‘steal’ refugee children – her act was one of pure privilege https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindsay-lohan-punched-steal-refugees/ This article is about how Lindsay Lohan started verbally attacking a syrian refugee and her family. After she was continuously  getting rude the refugee in Russia punched her on the face; where she then fell to the ground and started crying. This was also viewed to on instagram live with 6.8 million views. This is an example of soft news since it has nothing to do with politics. Gultanf and Ruge would say that a news value that represents this is Elite people and nations as it involves someone rich and famous

1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict--> Tension or surprise--> Gaza ceasefire: 'It feels like normal life' Progress--> Triumph or achievement --> Brexit: Theresa May says 'important progress' made at EU summit Disaster--> Defeat or destruction--> Storm Florence: Disaster declared in North Carolina Consequence--> Effects on an individual -->Brain injury: Stories of changed lives Prominence --> The well-known --> Cliff Richard paedophile claims Novelty--> The unusual or emotional-->Death of Micheal Jackson 2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? --> The example given by Gultang and Ruge is 'British servicewomen dies after Afgan bomb blast'. This is mostly to be covered in mainstrea...

Anthony Joshua wants Deontay Wilder next after beating Alexander Povetkin… but we need a deal from his team in six weeks This is an example of soft news. This article is about the win that Anthony Joshua had on Saturday.He says he is fighting Tyson Fury on December 1 but we cannot wait until that fight to make our decision on AJ's career. I would like to know where we are with Wilder's team in the next five or six weeks because we cannot really go longer than that. This appeals to a younger audience as they willbe more interested

ARTICLE 1 : 'I' NEWS Labour to vote on keeping open the prospect of second Brexit referendum https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/labour-vote-second-brexit-referendum/                                          This is an example of hard news as it is representing the political side of news. This article is about the Labour Party putting down a motion on whether or not to have a second referendum for Brexit. They believe they we should have a general election on whether we should accept the current deal we have or renegotiate for another deal. Consistency and the public are putting pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to back the ' People's Vote'. They are hoping to gain a general election so that they can change the current team of negotiates. This story on the one hand does reflect the ideologies of a newspaper because they are not biased they are quite neutral. They reflect both s...

Blog tasks Go to the  Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students . The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shiky says.  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? --> He states that journalism is accountable of supplying all different types of media platforms news as they often use them to give them the source of the news which would lead to it being much more difficult to relay the news off to people. He also mentions how...

Ofcom report into news consumption 2018 Now read  this Ofcom 2018 report on the consumption of news in the UK . Note down the key statistics and changes that Ofcom highlight and answer the following questions: 1) Look at the key findings from the report on page 2. How do UK adults generally get their news?  --> UK adults usually get there news from the TV nowadays by UK adults (79%). 2) Read the overall summary on page 8. How popular are newspapers as a news source? How does this compare to other news sources? --> Newspaper are only used by the older generation than other news sources like from the internet which is mostly used by younger generations in the ABC1 category 16-24 year olds. 3) Look at the summary of platforms used on page 13. What audience demographic groups are most and least likely to read newspapers? --> The audience demographic most likely to read newspapers are those aged 65+ and 16-24 years old would generally be the ones who are l ikely to ...

Blog task 1: The impact of Google Read  this article looking at the impact Google has had on the traditional newspaper business . Answer the following questions: 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? --> Google has lead to the decline of other newspapers because it gives out the news for free rather the audience paying for it. Google have links to billions of news websites allowing there to be easy access to it  2) Find a  statistic  from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. --> A statistic from the articles that shows the decline of traditional new media is: In the past decade newspapers have lost a revenue of $40 billion which is about 60 percent of the revenue. 3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  -->2000 4) Do you  personally  think Google is to blame for newspapers closing an...

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 165: The death of print media . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? -->There has been a decline in the amount of printed newspaper sold because of the rise of new and digital media. Due to the internet audiences can now consume a huge amount of news and information for free; this is information that back in the 1950s and 60s people had to pay for there information. MOst blame journalist and companies for this change as they did not keep with evolving time. Hence the drop in revenue, they relied so much on printed copies that they did not consider using the internet. 2) Why is the  Independent  newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? --> The independent sold 280,000 copi...

"Within 25 years all newspapers will be avaliable online only nothing will be printed" On the one hand I agree with this statement because this generation new and developing technology is what  we are interested in, hence allowing there to be a decline in the amount of the newspapers being printed and sold. Also, younger people can find newspapers all online therefore stopping them spending money on the printed version. This therefore means that the profits will decrease dramatically. However, older generation from the 90s and 80s are still more likely to buy newspapers since most of them do not use new technology or technology of any type. Older people are more like to stick traditional ways because they were raised that way. Hence allowing newspapers still printing papers to satisfy the needs of certain type of people. Overall, I disagree with the statement because they are more likely to decrease the amount of newspapers printed but not stop completely. This is because...